Posts by Max Eckersley
A group of Hackney residents are using a doughnut to reinvigorate their community
Artist Rose Gibbs tells the Citizen all about plans for a self-built community hall on Mountford Estate – and the snack-shaped diagram underpinning them
Read More‘History in the making’: Hackney artist’s Brexit gift ‘delightfully received’ by Prime Minister Theresa May
Kevin Gill, who counts Barack Obama as a fan, sent a print of his painting ‘The Brexit Note’, featuring politicians past and present, to Number 10
Read MoreAll hands to The Plough
Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen
Read MoreBacklash as Hackney North Labour passes motion rejecting claims of ‘institutional racism’
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calls on Labour’s executive committee to investigate Diane Abbott’s local party
Read MoreSmashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift
A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together
Read MoreVolunteer group using dogs to fight loneliness finds a new home for 2019
Pets Against Loneliness to start up again after renovation work at its old meeting spot put its plans on hold
Read MoreLabour’s Meg Hillier rules out defection but reveals hopes for a vote on second referendum
The Hackney South MP hints that she could break with official party policy next week to back a fresh public vote
Read MoreCarved-up Stik mural to get Polish homecoming after four-year wrangle with London gallery boss
Stik hails ‘step forward for artists’ rights’ as he reveals plans to restore a community mural in Gdansk that was chopped up and sold off without his knowledge
Read MoreHomelessness charity launches winter campaign with video shot by Hackney filmmaker
Rob Newman’s film shows how finding a home is often just the first step on the road to recovery
Read MoreStreet artist unveils First World War mural in Shoreditch to mark Remembrance Day
Jerome Davenport, also known as Ketones6000, previously painted a tribute to suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in nearby Bow
Read MoreUK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton
Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year
Read More‘Lutes, lutes, lutes!’: Filmmaker Laura Stratford on her new documentary, #MeToo, and why she’s on the tail of Elaine Paige
The talented 26-year-old sat down with the Citizen to discuss her film about a brain injury survivor after its recent Rio premiere
Read MoreHackney school’s mental health charity to launch pop-up arts shop curated by top DJ
Safaplace and Gilles Peterson’s week-long collaboration will feature daily appearances from authors and performers
Read More‘London’s first theatreland’: Archaeologists dig up more secrets at Shakespearean playhouse
Museum of London also reveals plans for a new exhibition space in Shoreditch centred around The Theatre’s in-situ remains
Read MoreArtist teams up with East End schoolchildren for new Whitechapel Gallery show
Mikhail Karikis’ No Ordinary Protest is the gallery’s 10th children’s commission
Read MoreFlowers Gallery to host John Loker retrospective to mark artist’s 80th birthday – 48 years after it put on his first solo show
Loker, along with David Hockney, was part of the so-called ‘Bradford Mafia’ – a group of artists who first rose to prominence in the 1960s
Read More‘Victims are becoming the perpetrators’: Rabbi and former Labour councillor hits out at ‘toxic’ atmosphere in local party
Party says it is ‘very sorry’ to hear the views of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, who recently wrote to Jeremy Corbyn over ‘unchallenged’ instances of antisemitism he has suffered
Read More‘The scene in east London is a jungle’: Street artist speaks out after unveiling Clapton murals
Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’
Read MoreOver 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers
Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development
Read MoreHackney becomes first council to pass Windrush motion as leading activist urges others to follow suit
Town Hall officially agrees to push the government for a public inquiry into the scandal and oppose criminalisation of the Windrush generation
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